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Negro Ant

Formica fusca

1,358Records since 2000
JunePeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb6
Mar36
Apr113
May227
Jun317
Jul233
Aug200
Sep82
Oct25
Nov6
Dec1

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England133
2Suffolk England107
3Norfolk England93
4Cornwall England87
5Dorset England43
6Swansea Wales41
7Surrey England39
8Devon England34
9Powys Wales30
10Cambridgeshire England29
11Kent England19
12Somerset England16
13Essex England15
14Pembrokeshire Wales15
15Nottinghamshire England13
1,184 England16 Scotland146 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 64 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,358
Peak month
June
Counties with records
64
Scientific name
Formica fusca
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,342
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Formica
Name with authority
Formica fusca Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1543905 · GBIF 1314881